One of Kate Bush’s Guinness World Records is the oldest female artist to reach number one in the UK charts.
Officially, Kate Bush broke three world book records Guinness World Records after the recent success of “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” which returned to the charts because it appeared in the fourth season of Stranger Thingsoriginal series Netflix created by the brothers duffer.
The song, which appears on the fifth studio album by Bush, Hounds of Love (1985) reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in June 2022 after being featured on “Chapter Four: Dear Billy,” fourth episode of the fourth year of the series starring Millie Bobby Brown.
According to information from NME, Guinness World Records confirmed how the singer achieved the following records in the UK: oldest female artist to reach number one, longest time for a track to reach number one on the country’s official singles chart and longest break between number one.
The oldest woman at the top of the UK singles charts was Cher with “believe,” released in 1998, when she was 52. “Congratulations, Kate. Records are made to be broken‼️”, wrote the singer in the twitter. “Remember back in the day when women had short sales for dates⁉️ We had two fights to get through the testosterone curtain, and we did it so the girls who came after us could sing as long as they wanted. With mega respect.”
“Running Up That Hill” it took 36 years and 310 days to reach first place on these shores. Guinness World Recordsthe track broke “Last Christmas,” 1984 song by Wham!which took 36 years and 23 days to reach the top spot (it peaked in January 2021).
Furthermore, the song Bush yielded her first number one in the UK charts since she topped the charts with her debut single, “Wuthering Heights,” in 1978. The previous holder of that record, Tom Joneshad hit the mark with “Green, Green Grass Of Home” in 1967.
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Kate Bush talks about ‘Running Up That Hill’ success after Stranger Things in rare interview
The singer Kate Bush talked about success of “Running Up That Hill,” song released in 1985, after the fourth season of Stranger Thingsoriginal series Netflixin a rare interview granted to the program Woman’s Hourpresented by Emma Barnett at BBC Radio 4 this Wednesday the 22nd.
In the program, Bush explained how the song’s recent rise to the top of the charts was “extraordinary,” and added how Stranger Things is “such a good series.” In addition, in a way, she already expected the success of the track: “I thought the song would attract attention. But I never imagined how something like this would be. It’s so emotional. But it’s really shocking, isn’t it? I mean, the whole world went crazy.”
Bush The “wonderful” part about the song’s resurgence 37 years after its initial release is that it has managed to reach “a whole new audience that, in many cases, has never heard of me. The idea of all these young people listening to the song for the first time and discovering it is, well, I think it’s very special.”
in the fourth season of Stranger Things“Running Up That Hill” plays in the fourth episode, in one of the most epic moments of the series created by Matt and Ross Duffer. In the scene, the life of Max (Sadie Sink) is in great danger after being captured by vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), but she manages to escape when she hears the song, the character’s favorite.
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